Thursday, April 29, 2010

Coffee Shops and a park in Bristol


Like I said last week we hung out in downtown Bristol a bit so here are a few more pictures from our time in Bristol. The first picture is from inside Java J's Coffee Shop a cute little place with the regular coffee shop items. After we came in there was another family with a little girl around Chance's age. They played together the whole time we were in the shop. They "played" Connect Four by putting all the checkers in the stand then taking them all out again over and over.

On one of the days we brought Deedle with us from the hotel so we could totally free up the room to let the maids clean. It is kind of hard coordinating getting the dog and Chance out of the room at the same time for the maids to do their thing, luckily they were able to clean while we were gone so it all worked out. Anyway while in Bristol we went to this neat little park right next to where Scott is working. I never found out the name of the park but it is obviously to honor men and women in the military. There are sculptures, a duck pond, a stage, a really cool water fountain which would be great if it wasn't FREEZING here and this awesome helicopter. Chance had a good time running around exploring everything and so did Deedle for that matter. I was trying to have fun but was pretty stressed between watching Chance and trying to keep Deedle from barking his head off at everyone he saw, but it was a lovely park.

Another day we went to the Manna Bagel Company on the Tennessee side of Bristol. A great little place for coffee, breakfast and lunch items and of course lots of different kinds of bagels. They also make all their bagels on site. Although Chance wasn't allowed inside the room they let him stand in the door and watch as they make the bagels. They have a big machine for mixing the dough and then another one that cuts the dough and shapes it into an 'O' then sends it out on a belt where a lady grabbed it up and placed it on a large baking sheet ready for the oven. It pays off making their own bagels because it was the best bagel I have had since we were in New York over 5 years ago. These are a few of Chance's personally posed pictures he did while we were sitting at our table in the Bagel Company. This is his serious face, his sleeping face and his singing face according to him by the way he isn't actually singing in the last picture it's just a pose, he's so funy.

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